In the World of the High Tech Redneck, the Graybeard is the old guy who earned his gray by making all the mistakes, and then tries to keep the young 'uns from repeating them. Silicon Graybeard is my term for an old hardware engineer; a circuit designer. Here are mental droppings from a newly retired radio engineer running from tech news to economics; from firearms to the world at large; from radio to home machine shops and making all kinds of stuff.

Sunday, September 11, 2011

Change of Plans

The QoTD yesterday ended with

I’ve just decided that I’ll be spending Sunday at the range…

Not today: Mrs. Graybeard has a bit of a cold. Instead, I spent the day reloading .30-06 for my Remington 700 - full power loads, not a load tweaked for the Garand. Relaxing and fun, especially compared to the problems I had with my first reloading exercise. Not one problem, not one minute's trouble seating the large rifle primers (Winchester, not CCI).

Didn't watch much of the 9/11 festivities: hardly any at all. I think Mark Steyn hit it out of the park, though, with his piece "Let's Roll Over". Go read. There's just so much weapons-grade snark in there, it doesn't do it justice to excerpt anything.

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Retired radio engineer, follower of Christ, RF designer, mentor. Radio ham, home shop machinist, lapidary, silversmith, roadie cyclist, learning to be a rifleman, and home defender, - a guy with too many interests to keep track of.

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